Anarchy, Authority, Rule
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6272829 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas Onuf, Nicholas G Onuf (0000-0001-7212-8917, American University), Frank F Klink (American University) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 149 |
| Publication date | 1989-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8833 • E-ISSN: 1468-2478 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2600535 |
| OpenAlex | W2325454072 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 49 |
| References cited | 35 |
International Relations and Political Science are constituted as disciplines on the Hobbesian opposition of anarchy and authority. We reject this opposition and the paradigms of anarchy and authority it has come to authorize. We propose instead a single paradigm of rule to account for the pervasive asymmetries of international relations. We show that in German social thought from Hegel to Weber political society consists in relations of super- and subordination—relations maintained through rules and obtaining in rule. We reformulate Weber's three ideal types of rule, show their relation to independently established types of rule, and apply them to political society generally. We then examine diverse efforts in the recent literature of International Relations to challenge the assumption of anarchy, using the paradigm of rule to clear up numerous terminological and conceptual confusions. Finally, we show how the paradigm of rule facilitates an understanding of such contemporary asymmetries as Soviet-East European and North-South relations
Epistemology · Extension (predicate logic · Hegelianism · International relations · Law and economics · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Rule of law · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theology and Sovereignty
La teoría de las relaciones internacionales en la encrucijada
Diplomacy and Grand Strategy
Restraint in International Politics
Comparative Foreign Policy Analysis
Opposition und Dissidenz in der Weltgesellschaft – Zur Rekonstruktion globaler Herrschaft aus dem Widerstand
Social Theory of International Politics
Problems and Prospects in the Study of International Norms
Konstruktivistische Analysen der internationalen Politik
Realist Constructivism
Southeast Asia-US Relations
Parties, Pavilions and Protests
Performing Statehood through Crises
Heteronymous politics beyond anarchy and hierarchy
Opposition and dissidence
The invisible structures of anarchy
Kenneth Waltz's Kantian moral philosophy
Rethinking political structures
Rule and resistance in global governance
The Language of Security in Philippine-us Relations
Havana, Moscow and Washington
Mutilation and metaphor
The Gulf and the Horn
International political economy in the age of open Marxism
Dependent state formation and Third World militarization
The quest for legitimacy in world politics – international institutions’ legitimation strategies
Embedded authority
What is a (global) polity
Beyond formal powers
The Role of Hierarchy in International Politics
Benjamin Cohen on global political order
A New World Order
Reading and Writing Non-Offensive Defence
Realist Constructivism
Decolonizing the Cuban Missile Crisis
Discursive Multilateralism
Foreign Policy as Social Construction
State Sovereignty in International Relations
Rationalizing Core-Periphery Relations
Legitimacy and Authority in International Politics
Beyond Realpolitik
Rightful Rules
Four Conceptions of Authority in International Relations
Hierarchy under anarchy
A house divided
Territorial and national sovereigns
An international hierarchy of science
Reconceptualizing Anarchy
Sovereign Inequalities and Hierarchy in Anarchy
Organized Armed Groups as Ruling Organizations
Power
Max Weber on the Methodology of the Social Sciences
Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory
The Political Economy of International Relations
The State in Capitalist Society
The Theory Of Social And Economic Organization
Max Weber
System and process in international politics
War and Change in World Politics
Man and His Government
The Theory of Hegemonic Stability and Changes in International Economic Regimes, 1967–1977
The Dominant Ideology Thesis
Hegel's Retreat from Eleusis
Political Elites in a Democracy
The Anarchical Society
Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations
Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition
Weber, the Ideal Type, and Contemporary Social Theory
Political power and social classes
The political economy of international relations
State Power and the Structure of International Trade
Authority and Power in Bureaucratic and Patrimonial Administration
Explaining Cooperation Under Anarchy
Realism, Change, and International Political Theory
Quasi-states, dual regimes, and neoclassical theory
The agent-structure problem in international relations theory
Power and Interdependencerevisited
Continuity and Transformation in the World Polity
Expression and Meaning
De-Parsonizing Weber
A Structural Theory of Imperialism
Authority Patterns
Theoretical Logic in Sociology
| Unique citing works | 49 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,36 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2025 (36) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 48 |